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#1958 – Photo Tales (42)

The theme of this Photo Tales post is my latest experiments in the kitchen!

Photo #93

A duck fillet steak experiment

My long weekend trip to Lyon gave me a kitchen experiment inspiration for a duck fillet steak. At the time it hit me how I could never think about it as it appeared not very complicated!

While the cooking part was not that complicated, indeed; the grocery shopping part was, haha 😆 . It appeared to me that duck meat was not *that* popular here in the Netherlands. I mean, the supermarket sold it; but it was not as “visible” and “plenty” as the other types of meat. As I could not find it in my first attempt, I resorted to Google to find out that the supermarket only sold one “type” of duck fillet. It was boxed and was put in a special chiller for boxed stuffs, haha. It certainly made the meat look more “premium”, though, and this might partly explain the price, haha.

Anyway, I liked it! Though I am not sure if I am going to cook it that often, due to the higher proportion of fat (thanks, my nutrition app). Even though this might be because of the skin; in which case the fat would not be a problem if I just ignored the skin. But you know, ignoring a crispy skin on your plate in front of you sounds like a difficult thing to do, haha 😆 .

Photo #94

A high protein meal experiment

Speaking of the nutrition app, aside from reducing my consumption of fat, I am also trying to increase my consumption of protein. And this motivated this experiment to cook the pictured high protein meat, haha.

Lean red meat is obviously low in fat and is delicious for a steak, so that is a given. And then we all know that tempe (I know it is spelled “tempeh” in English but it just feels weird for me to type so. So I am typing it in the original Indonesian spelling here 😛 ) is rich in protein. And before I moved to Amsterdam, my ex-housemate told me about the existence of this “bimi” vegetables, which is a hybrid between brocolli and kailan and also has high amount of protein.

Surprisingly (or not?), the dish worked well!! 😀 For this one, though, I am sure I am cooking this more often (at least more often than the duck fillet dish 😛 ).